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Is There Something Wrong With the State?
There's this experimentation for centuries, millennia, even, with the idea that the way that you protect yourself the tragic consequences of self consciousness is by organizing yourself into a state. But then what happens is the state itself begins to reveal its pathologies. And as those pathologies mount, the state becomes unstable and collapses. Then it rises back up and become unstable and collapses, and then it rises backup. After it does this a number of times, people wonder if there's not something wrong with the ideathat the state itself is this is the is the pathway, is the place of redemption. So i think on the heels of that comes the christian revolution with its hypothesis that it's